Looking at GPU prices today, this is an understatement.
My finances are in crisis.
You know whos winning ... the bitcoin miners retiring unprofitable cards, if they still have them.
Good job guys.
My finances are in crisis.
You know whos winning ... the bitcoin miners retiring unprofitable cards, if they still have them.
Good job guys.
Bitcoin mining hasn't used GPUs in ages. They've been all-in on ASICs since 2013 or so; even if the GPUs were free, they wouldn't be worth running.
After bitcoin halfed enough, the electricity cost more for the miners.
Now with the AI boom, people are paying premium prices for low end cards, because they run AI tasks exponentially faster than CPUs do.
So the electrical load that was once centralized at the mining site, gets distributed.
Being able to schedule your AI agents to work during off peak electrical prices, and sleep during peak pricing, seems to be a stablizing factor for the grid.
Im talking about the used video card market.
Not the billion dollar data center market.
Prices are up 35% in the last 3 months alone, and I just paid way too much for a RTX 5060 Ti 16GB for the ram.
Adapt to the worlds problems.
Don't adopt them.